The Left Handed Build

[piggin23]

I wanted to have my DVD drive powder coated again & thought I would do a little ‘guide’
Started with a standard Pioneer DVD drive





Use a straightened paper clip to open the door





Pull the tray out fully





There are four retaining screws on the underside





Remove the screws





Ignore the manufacturer’s warranty





Depress the side clip to remove the front cover





Remove the front cover over the front tray





Lift the top cover off





You now have a drive that is stripped down





You now have to clean the top & bottom covers of the drive





The disk centraliser is plastic & has to be removed from the top cover





Push on the centre & pop out the disk





Remove the thermal pad from the bottom cover




Clean off any stickers etc from the covers



Refit the screws back into the holes of the drive. This stops the holes from filling with powder coat



You can now get the covers powder coated.
Now rebuild the drive in the reverse of the above (did not refit the front cover on mine)



All fitted with both the fan controllers

[havingfun1]

haha pretty awesome, i'll have to try it my self

[piggin23]

I am going to place perforated plate over all the fan air intakes on this build.
This will stop any unwanted objects from being sucked into the fans
The perforated plate was powder coated black



I then covered the perforated plate with a very fine mesh to act as a air filter
The perforated plate was laid out on top of the mesh



The mesh was then cut down to size



And cut to fit each piece



The mesh will be held on with 6mm double sided tape



The tape was placed on all four sides



The mesh was then pulled tight & held in position with masking tape



The double sided tape has a protective coating on one side that has to be removed



This is not easy as its very thin



The perforated plate was then placed on top of the mesh



Once the mesh was fully stuck to the plate, the double sided tape was removed



The excess mesh was then trimmed off



The mesh was very neat on the reverse side of the plate



And looked good from the other side

[patters1978]

great mesh + love the cables very tidy

[piggin23]

great mesh + love the cables very tidy

Thanks very much

[piggin23]

As before, another brown box appears on the kitchen floor



And again on first impressions there is very little to see



But once the packing is removed, it gets a little better





I went with the 3930K chip, with the all important SPORKY version



Went with the ASUS RIVE motherboard



I had the full fat version so there are lots of toys to play with



I thought I would try Muskin RAM for this build



The red will look nice with the motherboard



The RAM does look @ home in this motherboard



Chip fitted



Waterblock fitted for some testing

[piggin23]

Due to the motherboard being shipped with two slightly misaligned CPU pins, the motherboard was RMA’ed back to ARIA.
I have to say this was the worst RMA experience I ever had.
I was accused of damaging the motherboard myself & after 3 months of banging my head against a brick wall, I finally had the motherboard returned.



I also had this



I went with nickel again (hope they don’t corrode like the last lot)



Screws removed from the rear of the motherboard around the CPU area



Also removed the screws from the board chip



Original cooling all removed



Old TIM removed & waterblock fitted



New thermal pads & waterblock fitted

[piggin23]

When the motherboard was away have a trip around the world.
nVidia was launching its new range of cards.
So on launch day the plastic had another battering & these turned up the next day



Not much to look @ in the box



And comes with very few extras



But they do look better in two’s



A few weeks later, these were ordered



Again I ordered nickel



And acetal



The screws from the PCI-e bracket have to be removed



Once again they have thread lock fitted but were removed



All the screws have to be removed from around the GPU



Again, thread lock does make this a little harder



Cooler removed



Card all cleaned up



New thermal pads fitted



Waterblocks fitted to both cards

[piggin23]

I thought I would go with the EK link system this time



The system comprises of the link



And two fittings that are attached to the cards



The screws from around the inlet/outlet holes have to be removed on both cards



The link piece is then fitted to one of the cards



Then both cards can be joined together

[UseItNow]

You out-do yourself mate!

Wonderful!

[piggin23]

You out-do yourself mate!

Wonderful!

Thanks m8.
Thought I should update my hardware for this build.
Unfortunately a lot of my old rig never lived in a case.
Hoping this time it will be different.

[UseItNow]

Thanks m8.
Thought I should update my hardware for this build.
Unfortunately a lot of my old rig never lived in a case.
Hoping this time it will be different.

Await your next update bud!

[piggin23]

I think I need to get the panels back from paint very soon as Mrs Piggin is now coming home to this







I think the dining room table is a great place to build a test bed but she is not so sure

[piggin23]

My mate finally phoned me to come and pick up the panels for this build.





Not that impressive at first glance (also a poor image due to poor lighting, incorrect WB etc)





But after some polishing with my DA





The panels look very good








I then needed to attach the mesh onto the inside of the panels
The mesh was laid out & the panels marked





This gives the position of where the double sided tape will sit





After some time the panel was covered with tape





The rear of the tape was removed & the mesh attached.





This was done to all the panels











So the build is now in full flow with more updates soon !!!!!

[piggin23]

Fitted the lower section divided





Bulk head fittings used between the upper & lower sections





Lower support fitted to frame with rubber dampers in the corners so the pumps will not pass vibration through the case





Double DDC & D5 pumps fitted to the dampened plate





Cables held in with P clips





Rad fitted into bottom section





Pipe work fitted




I am using a combination of fittings & pipe extensions to get a neat finish





Double DDC plumbed in to res from above & rad





Suction feed pipework to D5 plumbed in





Second rad fitted into the lower section & discharge of D5 plumbed in





Both rads joined together with discharge pipework going back through the lower section divide

[Biscuit]

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